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Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Ben Glaser, 1
Rhythm’s Critiques
Why Rhythm?
Jonathan Culler, 21
What Is Called Rhythm?
David Nowell Smith, 40
Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness
Simon Jarvis, 60
Body, Throng, Race
The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics
Virginia Jackson, 87
Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body
Haun Saussy, 106
Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm
Erin Kappeler, 128
Beat and Count
The Rhythms of the English Dolnik
Derek Attridge, 153
How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper
Thomas Cable, 174
Picturing Rhythm
Meredith Martin, 197
Fictions of Rhythm
Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds
Natalie Gerber, 223
Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?
Yopie Prins 247
Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel”
Ewan Jones, 274
Acknowledgments 297
List of Contributors 299
Index 303

Critical Rhythm

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 8 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9780823282036
      978-0823282036
      ISBN-10 0823282031
      Also in:
      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Philosophy: aesthetics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Ben Glaser, 1
      Rhythm’s Critiques
      Why Rhythm?
      Jonathan Culler, 21
      What Is Called Rhythm?
      David Nowell Smith, 40
      Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness
      Simon Jarvis, 60
      Body, Throng, Race
      The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics
      Virginia Jackson, 87
      Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body
      Haun Saussy, 106
      Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm
      Erin Kappeler, 128
      Beat and Count
      The Rhythms of the English Dolnik
      Derek Attridge, 153
      How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper
      Thomas Cable, 174
      Picturing Rhythm
      Meredith Martin, 197
      Fictions of Rhythm
      Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds
      Natalie Gerber, 223
      Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?
      Yopie Prins 247
      Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel”
      Ewan Jones, 274
      Acknowledgments 297
      List of Contributors 299
      Index 303

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